Days before the Chicago Plan Commission approved plans for the Obama Presidential Center, a federal lawsuit was filed to block the proposed $500 million facility that will be built in Jackson Park.

The 500-acre park is located in Chicago’s predominately Black Woodlawn and South Shore neighborhoods, where former First Lady Michelle Obama, rapper Kanye West and some of the nation’s most prominent Blacks once lived. On Thursday, May 17, the Chicago Plan Commission unanimously approved the blueprints for the Obama Presidential Center, despite emotional appeals from protestors who are concerned that the library will eventually drive up rents in the neighborhoods and force out longtime, low-income residents. The plans now go before the city’s 50-member city council. While those plans are expected to pass that stage, the Obama Foundation faces a lawsuit that may be its biggest hurdle yet.

3: We do live in the world. But we do not fight in the same way that the world fights.
4: We fight with weapons that are different from those the world uses. Our weapons have power
from God. These weapons can destroy the enemy’s strong places.
We destroy men’s
arguments.
5: And we destroy every proud thing that raises itself against the knowledge of God. We capture
every thought and make it give up and obey Christ.•